Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!

First it was Shannon, then Meg, followed by Matt. Now it’s my turn. Redesign fever is ripping through the Web like a Spring cold. It’s looking like green is the new grey this year.

I’ve had this redesign on the back burner for a couple weeks now. I’ve merged most of the content from the Walkingbirds site over here, and hopefully I haven’t broken too many things. Drop me a line if you see something amiss.

So, what gives? Um, well, this was sorta planned to coincide with the release of my new American Thing EP, which I’ll be taking to South By Southwest this year. I’ll have about 100 copies to give away. The EP includes hotter, phatter remixes of “American Thing” and “Stay The Same,” along with a brand-new tune, “The Big Lie That Solves Everything.” I haven’t had time to rip that one yet, so head over to Mixonic and give the sample a listen. I’ve also rearranged the MP3 page and included lyrics for the ones I wrote.

This EP release, and the site redesign, is also a little statement of intent. For a lot of the past two years, I’ve been grappling with this dual existence of mine, and I’ve finally reached a point where, if I were to be run over by a freight train tomorrow, I’d rather be remembered as that songwriter guy than that JavaScript guy. For too long, stuff I really care about has been buried under a pile of CSS tips and rants about Netscape 4 support.

I’m equally happy being a webhead and frustrated musician, but recently I’ve been feeling like the former is becoming stale while the latter is atrophying like a long unused muscle that yearns for me to flex it! So. A little redirection of effort, as it were. I’ll continue to blab about Web stuff, but in the meantime, I’m going to write more songs, put out records and try not to worry about it too much.

Now all I need is a band.